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Quotes About Protection

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.
~ Alonzo King
Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love
~ Sam Harris
So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.
~ William Shakespeare
Safer than we are." I told Franny. "Safer than love." "let me tell ya kid," Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. "Everything's safer than love.
~ John Irving
I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin, May they be strong to keep hate out And hold love in.
~ Louis Untermeyer
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
~ Louise Bourgeois
Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
~ Michael Moore
I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
~ Daphne Guinness
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
~ Eugenio Montale
Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you. I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us.
~ Lorna Byrne, Angels In My Hair
Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.
~ Teju Cole
If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
~ Betty Smith
Strawberries Strawberries, like all berries, are a real health bonanza. All berries—strawberries, blueberries, raspberries—contain chemicals found to protect cells against cervical and breast
~ Jonny Bowden
Cocoa is loaded with compounds called flavonoids, which are also found in cranberries, apples, strawberries, onions, tea, and red wine, placing chocolate in excellent company. There are more than 4,000 of these flavonoids in the plant kingdom. In plants, flavonoids provide important protection like shielding from environmental
~ Jonny Bowden
The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another.
~ Jonny Steinberg
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything — anything — to defend ourselves against that return.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Say what you mean, so that you can find out what you mean. Act out what you say, so you can find out what happens. Then pay attention. Note your errors. Articulate them. Strive to correct them. That is how you discover the meaning of your life. That will protect you from the tragedy of your life. How could it be otherwise?
~ Jordan B. Peterson
There's some real utility in gratitude. It's also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment
~ Jordan B. Peterson
This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them. And even if it were possible to permanently banish everything threatening—everything dangerous (and, therefore, everything challenging and interesting), that would mean only that another danger would emerge: that of permanent human infantilism and absolute uselessness.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren't just about belief.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
It's no wonder that people will fight to protect something that saves them from being possessed by emotions of chaos and terror (and after that from degeneration into strife and combat).
~ Jordan B. Peterson
the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.
~ Jordan B. Peterson